“What the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee report says about Andy Coulson, the information commissioner, the police and the PCC.”
The Guardian, 24th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The News of the World is believed to be planning to settle a court case which threatens to disclose further evidence of the involvement of its journalists in illegal information-gathering by private investigators. According to one source at the paper, executives have devised a plan to block the case by offering money to the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to persuade him to settle his legal action over the illegal interception of his voicemail messages.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Labour breached privacy rules by making unsolicited automated phone calls to almost half a million people without their consent, the Information Commissioner’s Office has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The News of the World yesterday lost a court battle to keep secret evidence which, it is claimed, would reveal widespread use of illegal methods by reporters to obtain personal information about celebrities.”
The Guardian, 3rd February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The father of an autistic daughter lost a High Court battle today against a mobile phone mast being sited outside his home.”
The Independent, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Legislation for a £2bn Home Office surveillance project to track details of everybody’s email, mobile phone, text and internet use has been put on hold after a consultation raised concerns over its technical feasibility, costs and privacy safeguards.”
The Guardian, 9th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The European Commission has rejected the UK’s defence of its electronic privacy laws and will continue to pursue legal action against the Government in a case sparked by BT’s use of Phorm web activity monitoring without telling its subscribers.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th October 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Ofcom to clampdown on companies using machines to bulk-call consumers but failing to connect them to an agent when they answer.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Mobile phone networks could face fines of up to 10% of their turnover from today if they fail to stamp out contract mis-selling. The networks will be responsible not just for their own behaviour but for that of retailers selling their services.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th September 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A fantasist delivery driver who sparked a diplomatic security alert by pretending to be an assassin has been jailed for three-and-a-half months.”
BBC news, 3rd September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A series of emails and phone calls were not sufficient to establish a contract, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The communications did not contain enough information or the formal qualities necessary for a contract to have been made, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Where the relevant regulator was considering whether a mobile telecommunications company had ‘significant market power’ under the governing statutory regime the dispute resolution powers of the regulator were properly to be disregarded.”
WLR Daily, 17th July 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The Home Office’s revised proposals to monitor all text messages, email and internet use will have poor safeguards, prove very costly and not even work, London School of Economics researchers have found.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“New measures to maintain the capability of public authorities to obtain access to communications data were announced by the Home Secretary today.”
Home Office, 27th April 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A mobile phone airtime reseller did not have a legal duty to take network O2 to court on behalf of a company which had sold it its subscriber base, the High Court has said. The Court said the claim was based on a mistaken interpretation of a contract.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th March 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Office of Communications v Information Comr; [2009] WLR (D) 71
“When balancing the public interest in maintaining an exception to disclosure of environmental information against the public interest in its disclosure the correct test was to consider whether the aggregate public interest in maintaining the exception outweighed the public interest in disclosure. A benefit arising from unlawful use of disclosed information could be taken into account as an aspect of the public interest in disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Court of Appeal
“Beneficial consequences flowing from the unlawful use of disclosed information could be taken into account when balancing the public interest in disclosure of environmental information against the statutory exemption from disclosure.”
The Times, 27th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 from the date of publication.
“Mobile phone content providers who charge more that £4.50 a week for their services must seek the permission of premium-rate regulator PhonepayPlus to operate, under new rules which take immediate effect.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th January 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Controversial plans for a ‘superdatabase’ tracking all phone and internet communications today received the tacit support of the new director of public prosecutions (DPP).”
The Guardian, 9th January 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
T-Mobile (UK) Ltd and Another v Office of Communications
Court of Appeal
“An appeal from a decision of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) concerning the award of wireless telegraphy licences lay by way of judicial review and not to the Competition Appeal Tribunal.”
The Times, 18th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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